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Here's a short example of experimental / noise music that's a bit easier to digest:



There's still a strong musical element here but the sounds and mood are still wildly abrasive. Let the music get under your skin, turn off your lights and use headphones if you're willing to. What's interesting about Pharmakon's music is that it's extremely empowering for her, but extremely confrontational and almost humiliating for her listeners, especially new listeners, even more apparent in her live performances where she often skulks off stage into the audience and literally screams in their faces, her eyes inches from yours. For her it's about injecting all of her visceral and primal emotions into the music (this album was written during her recovery from massive surgery), for the listener it's about confronting those emotions and letting them sink in, learning to appreciate intense experiences whether they're positive or negative, it's not about feeling good or bad necessarily, it's just about feeling a lot.

I don't want to throw albums at you, I know your queue is seemingly endless, but I think Pharmakon's Bestial Burden is a fantastic entry into this kind of music. It was even featured on Rolling Stone Magazine's website upon release, that's very rare for music like this.

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